Kishor Sharma has been awarded in the 14th General Photography Festival “Photo City Sagamihara”.
Kishor has won the Grand Prix Asian prize, which includes 200,000 Yen, a trophy and certificates the winning professional photographer from Asia to exhibit his/her work of documentary photos.
Kishor will receive the prize in Japan on the 11th of October.
Picture from the story “Living in the Mist” by Kishor Sharma.
Kishor won with his story “Living in the Mist – the last Nomads of Nepal” about a remote tribe called the Rautes. Kishor began the story as a project during a DMJX workshop in Kathmandu in 2011.
For the past two semesters Kishor has studied at our international programmes here in Denmark. Kishor continued his work about the Rautes as his final diploma project this spring. He graduated in June 2014.
The series of 20 photographs will be exhibited in Sagamihara Civic Gallery Exhibition Room in Sagamihara, Japan from 10 to 27 October 2014.